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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	China	Congo - Kinshasa	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	1,248,899	51,181	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	1,258,401	52,782	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	1,267,178	54,453	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	1,275,379	56,170	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	1,283,064	57,860	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	1,290,620	59,599	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	1,298,245	61,474	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	1,305,116	63,479	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	1,311,877	65,590	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	1,318,559	67,800	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	1,324,993	70,114	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	1,331,357	72,550	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	1,339,549	75,138	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	1,349,537	77,792	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	1,357,520	80,534	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	1,366,654	83,368	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	1,373,406	86,229	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	1,382,401	89,193	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	1,390,136	92,209	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	1,395,398	95,232	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	1,400,035	98,320	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	1,402,060	101,499	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	1,402,537	104,767	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	1,401,693	108,171	31,058

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa, Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.